How do you like them now? Learning Matters checks in on Shelbyville, Ind., which six years ago was pictured on the cover of TIME magazine next to the headline “Dropout Nation.” Nowadays, the community is boasting a 90 percent graduation rate. (h/t This Week in Education) (PBS NewsHour)

Oopsie. The vice dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania reportedly fudged his own doctoral credentials—or “he mistakenly believed that it (the doctorate) was complete.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Trying to draw a link. Mike Petrilli wonders aloud whether lagging academic performance among 12th-graders can be linked to higher graduation rates. His theory: Low-performing students—who, 10 years ago, would have dropped out—are staying in school and bringing down the test score mean. (Flypaper)

Your good news story of the day. Teens in Joplin, Mo., go to class in an old department store since their high school, and community, was ravaged by a tornado last May. Hopes for a prom seemed dismal, until truckloads of donations from across the country came rolling in. (h/t Huffington Post) (MSNBC)